The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
FICUS RELIGIOSA
Ashwathya
General.–This East Indian drug causes and cures hemorrhages of many kinds. Hematemesis, menorrhagia, hemoptysis, etc. Bloody urine.
Head.–Melancholic-quiet; burning at vertex; vertigo and slight headache.
Stomach.–Nausea, vomiting of bright red blood; pain and sick feeling in stomach.
Respiratory.–Difficult breathing; cough with vomiting of blood; pulse very weak.
Relationship.–Compare: Acalypha; Millefol; Thlaspi; Ipecac.
Dose.–First potency.
FICUS RELIGIOSA
(Ashwatha—Indian version)
General.–Hemorrhage arrester; bleeding piles; epistaxis; dysentery mixed with blood; hemoptysis; hematemesis; hematuria; menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, etc.
Mind.–Unwilling to move; sad; melancholic; very sensitive to noise.
Head.–Nausea; vertigo; burning in vertex; vertigo with slight headache.
Mouth.–White tongue with profuse saliva.
Nose.–Epistaxis.
Stomach.–Vomiting of bright red blood; great repugnance to all food; sick feeling in stomach.
Respiration.–Difficulty in breathing; cough; hemoptysis.
Stool.–Blood dysentery.
Urinary.–Frequent micturition; blood in urine.
Female.–Menorrhagia; bearing down pain in lower abdomen.
Dose.–Mother tincture, 3x, 6, 30.